Hale County Indictments
More on the Hale County indictments that I told you about last night…
Two women were each charged with five counts related to illegal absentee voting. The counts relate to two different elections.
One was a special Democratic primary election for Senate District 24 in Hale County on October 24, 2004, with candidates Bryant Melton, Thomas Moore, and Bobby Singleton. (Singleton beat Moore in a run-off and went on to win the seat.)
The other was for a special Democratic primary election for House District 72 on May 3, 2005, between Ralph Howard and Albert Turner, Jr. Howard won the primary handily and went on to claim the seat.
Attorney General Troy King released a statement with some of the details and the text of his prepared remarks for today’s press conference in Greensboro, “Yesterday, the people of Hale County and my office took a strong step forward in the quest for justice and truth at our ballot boxes…”
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Note that in this article @ http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20070818/NEWS/70818009/1007/TL02 the AG gave credit for its efforts and assistance to the Democracy Defense League (DDL), a multi-racial non-partisan group of around 1,700 average citizens in 41 Alabama counties that is fighting voter fraud through its legislative agenda. When members of DDL approach a legislator to ask them to pass its agenda the number of members they represent carries a lot of weight with the legislator, especially if a number of the members are constituents of that legislator. For that reason I urge Alabamians all across the state to go the DDL website @ http://www.thedemocracydefenseleague.com/ and join at no cost. This is an organization with an agenda that is worthy of our support.
Also, spread this word to your friends and acquaintances throughout Alabama.
Comment by Don — August 18, 2007 @ 8:50 am
as co-chairman of the democracy defense league it was gratifying to
hear AG Troy King give our organization some credit for helping to bring
about the indictments for voter fraud in Hale County. The results have
justified to us our feeling that if citizens will stand up and work hard
to fight what they see as an injustice to the voting process and their
community then it is worthy cause. I would encourage anyone in any
ALabama county who sees a voter fraud problem to visit our website and
contact us and we will be very happy to help anyway we can. Join us in
our efforts to bring honest elections to Alabama. Voter fraud brings
corruption to our government and has far reaching consequences.
Comment by pattie dismukes — August 18, 2007 @ 4:46 pm
Voter and election fraud does not just happen with blacks and smaller counties, but of course they are always made the scapegoats. Corrupton also takes place in the larger counties among individual whites, but do they get prosecuted? Nope.
Comment by Anonymous — August 21, 2007 @ 5:13 pm
i certainly agree with comment posted by anonymous on august 21,2007.
voter fraud is committed by whites,blacks,democrats,republicans,etc.
one reason blacks and smaller counties are frequently referenced is mabye
the problem is more wide spread in blackbelt counties. i feel one of the
main reasons AG Troy King sent investigators to hale county was because of
never ending pleas of residentof hale county to do something about the
problem. until citizens begin to speak out and make a lot of noise about
voter problems in our state, ” blacks and smaller counties will continue
to be the scapegoats” please visit www.thedemocracydefenseleague.com
and lets make this a statewide fight.
Comment by pattie dismukes — August 22, 2007 @ 5:58 am
[…] Attorney General Troy King has had a tough year (for example, his flap with the Ethics Commission in recent weeks - though he had a bright moment in Hale County last month). […]
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[…] Rev. Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III, and SCLC President Charles Steele are said to be coming to Greensboro Sunday for a rally to show support for two women charged with five counts related to illegal absentee voting. (A circulating flier is belowI suspect if the trio knew much about the election history of the area that they might re-think their visit. (Despite what the flier says below, King is already iffy.) […]
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